A Guide to the Grand National and Historical Diorama of the Campaigns of Wellington
Author : Richard Ford
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Richard Ford
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Page : 74 pages
File Size : 10,10 MB
Release : 1852
Category : Great Britain
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Author : Richard Ford
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Page : 80 pages
File Size : 22,49 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : Erkki Huhtamo
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 461 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2023-08-22
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0262547546
Tracing the cultural, material, and discursive history of an early manifestation of media culture in the making. Beginning in the late eighteenth century, huge circular panoramas presented their audiences with resplendent representations that ranged from historic battles to exotic locations. Such panoramas were immersive but static. There were other panoramas that moved—hundreds, and probably thousands of them. Their history has been largely forgotten. In Illusions in Motion, Erkki Huhtamo excavates this neglected early manifestation of media culture in the making. The moving panorama was a long painting that unscrolled behind a “window” by means of a mechanical cranking system, accompanied by a lecture, music, and sometimes sound and light effects. Showmen exhibited such panoramas in venues that ranged from opera houses to church halls, creating a market for mediated realities in both city and country. In the first history of this phenomenon, Huhtamo analyzes the moving panorama in all its complexity, investigating its relationship to other media and its role in the culture of its time. In his telling, the panorama becomes a window for observing media in operation. Huhtamo explores such topics as cultural forms that anticipated the moving panorama; theatrical panoramas; the diorama; the "panoramania" of the 1850s and the career of Albert Smith, the most successful showman of that era; competition with magic lantern shows; the final flowering of the panorama in the late nineteenth century; and the panorama's afterlife as a topos, traced through its evocation in literature, journalism, science, philosophy, and propaganda.
Author : Francis Edwards
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Page : 49 pages
File Size : 38,71 MB
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Category : History
ISBN : 5875721367
Author : P. T. H. Unwin
Publisher : ABC-CLIO
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 16,60 MB
Release : 1987
Category : History
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Author : British Museum
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Page : 76 pages
File Size : 36,82 MB
Release : 1853
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Author : W. D. King
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 13,93 MB
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0520333322
In this creative study of history and popular culture, W. D. King ingeniously illustrates how a long-forgotten instance in theatre history can reveal the very process of historical change itself. Late in the nineteenth century, Henry Irving, the leading actor-manager of the English stage, was scathingly attacked by George Bernard Shaw for his popular performance in Conan Doyle's play, A Story of Waterloo. Shaw's review was one of the first onslaughts in a war against the old guard of the English stage, against Victorianism, against England and Empire itself. King's depiction of this event and its aftermath illuminates the period's crucial values and cultural issues, and is presented in a manner that is both convincing and highly entertaining. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1993.
Author : Richard Ford
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Page : 31 pages
File Size : 42,2 MB
Release : 1852
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Author : Edmund William Gilbert
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Page : 280 pages
File Size : 32,79 MB
Release : 1972
Category : Science
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Author : Richard FORD (of Heavitree, near Exeter.)
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Page : pages
File Size : 25,9 MB
Release : 1852
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